11/04/2010 @ 3:30PM

Anil Gupta Picks India's Seven Most Powerful Entrepreneurs

Anil Gupta Picks The Seven Most Powerful Rural Indian Entrepreneurs

India’s villages have become a hot bed of innovation, as its rural poor develop inventions out of necessity. Several of the people on this list have no more than an elementary school education, yet their inventions are changing lives across India. Through his Honeybee Network and the National Innovation Foundation, Anil Gupta provides institutional support in scaling grassroots innovations, streamlining manufacturing processes and formalizing intellectual property rights in hopes of turning India’s rural populace into self-sustaining entrepreneurs.

Anil Gupta is the founder of India’s Honeybee Network and helped establish India’s National Innovation Foundation.